the Optimist Companies
Welcome to the Companies page at Optimist World, where we look at the positive impact that companies can have by engaging in sustainable business practices. This could be anything from Fair Trade coffee in the break out area, to recycling points that people use and know about, charity fundraising (MATCH schemes) and volunteering programmes, right up to ethical investment schemes and responsible supply chains. This is what Corporate Responsibility is all about.
So if your company has a CR project that has global aspirations or local impact, we'd love to hear from you. We will tell your story so that others may be inspired.
We list any company with a CSR programme and highlight and promote those that make a donation to our selected Optimist Charities.
For more info on how to get heard and if you would like to get involved in the Optimist Awards 2009 please contact us at info@optimistworld.com
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Featured Articles
For centuries the fibre from the banana plant has been yarned to produce fine quality textiles. T...
Great sportsmanship will be making an environmental statement at this summer’s World Cup 2010 in ...
A new multi-million dollar programme set-up by the MasterCard Foundation and the Equity Group Fou...
A new women's empowerment programme has been in Bangladesh will provide 2,500 female factory work...
In an effort designed to promote and support community recycling, The Coca-Cola Company has partn...
International humanitarian efforts have taken all forms, from a benefit concert with over 100 mus...
The Ghana Cocco (COCOBOD) has gained support from the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership for a nationwide ...
The aftermath of the UN climate summit has presented the same split thought of the talks as befor...
From the first point of disembarking at Copenhagen airport there is a great welcome of hope. Visu...
Within the city centre in Copenhagen there is a monumental murky crystal globe, which also happen...
The winners of Green Awards 2009 were named to celebrate the work of those who are already buildi...
The new ‘Care tags' will be sewed into all items of clothing, and are about encouraging people to...
Sportswear company Nike has released its Doernbecher Freestyle footwear collection for the sixth ...
The Body Shop's new international campaign ‘Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People' ob...
Last week Nestlé chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe expressed a greater need and a broader strategy ...
The ‘Play to Stop' campaign is supported by 11 European countries to promote the campaign at nationa...
Unilever's 2008 contribution total of 3.2m Euro (corporate donations, cause-related marketing cam...
The crux of the Great British Refurb campaign is to make it ‘easier, more affordable and more att...
Four of the biggest meat companies involved in Brazilian cattle farming have joined forces to sto...
If there is a way to heal the lost young hearts of our world then The Body Shop’s ‘Soft Hands Kin...
Communities in West Africa will gain access to clean water with an affordable water filter suppor...
Over 500 leading global companies have signed up to a call for action to reduce emissions, in tim...
The ABB solution has helped thousands of farmers in region to reduced energy consumption by 30% a...
Over 200,000 deaf and hearing people in Taiwan, China, will benefit from a real-time online sign ...
Everyone's been there. That top which was screaming for you to buy it, despite not being your col...
10:10 is a new initiative in the UK that invites individuals, schools, hospitals, businesses and ...
Give. Good. Green. In the last three years, buying pre-owned handbags on eBay had the same effect...
Gap's newly launched brand of 1969 Premium Jeans are the first to communicate the company's effor...
Over the past three years, the food company has made efforts to reduce the amount of water used i...
In its latest bid towards being green, supermarket giant Tesco, Europe’s biggest retailer, has an...
Top footwear brands such as Adidas, Clarks, and Timberland have called for a halt to the destruct...
Global transportation and business services company FedEx Corp. has added 92 hybrid-electric truc...
Resources helping 54 million Americans with disabilities will be further supported from a grant o...
Fast-food restaurant Burger King's scholars program the Have It Your Way Foundation has awarded o...
Japanese car manufacturer Toyota's education programme T-TEP has set up a new training college in...
A new online management service could be the answer to help the UK's highest unemployment populat...
Plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer have been unveiled by IBM and the Swi...
In a bid to promote the health and longevity of our planet food and drinks company PepsiCo has op...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), deaths from CVD will increase from 17.2 million...
The Irish Wind Energy Association(IWEA) launched Ireland's first major study into employment oppo...
Speaking at CSR Europe's General Assembly in Brussels the European Commission President José Manu...
Solutions provider Alcatel-Lucent's Coprporate Social Responsibility programme celebrated ‘Intern...
Hotel group Accor will further support the global reforestation programme ‘Plant for the Planet: ...
The initiative represents the third phase of BT and UNICEF's ‘Inspiring Young Minds' programme, a...
Destruction of the world's tropical rainforests accounts for about 20% of greenhouses gases – mor...
Asda knows a lot about making savings and reducing prices for its customers. And as one of UK's l...
Coca-Cola will introduce a fully recyclable new bottle made partially from plants. The PlantBottl...
The t-shirt is probably the one garment that through design can make a bold statement, where the ...
Communications company Motorala and the Motorola Foundation are collaborating with Earth Day Netw...
Confectioner Cadbury has announced a 17% reduction in water consumption by an increased efficienc...
Two million people in western Kenya will receive home-based HIV/AIDS testing and counselling over...
Several leading UK retailers and manufacturers including Waitrose, Asda, Rachel's Organics and th...
This year's ReSource Award for sustainable watershed management has been won by an Afghanistan-ba...
Global restaurant company Pizza Hut's read-aloud programme BOOK IT! Beginners will be fe...
Over the next three to five years the Walt Disney Company will work to reducing emissions, waste,...
Planning permission has been given to a new £2.1m scheme to build a development that will provide...
Recognising that companies are facing issues greater regulation; a challenging economic situation...
Confectioner Cadbury has outlined its efforts to help reduce the environmental impact of dairy fa...
For a majority of Italian corporations climate change can influence and present an opportunity for b...
The Volkswagen Community Trust celebrated its 20th birthday in the Volkswagen plant in Uitenhage,...
A new campaign motivating children to becoming protective about biodiversity will be launched by ...
A partnership has been launched aiming at increasing cleaner production and energy efficiency in ...
Development work of France's first ‘eco-quarter', Parc Matisse, has started. The Parc, located in...
Kiehls established JPF Eco Systems as a partnership with Pitt to support global environmental ini...
The American actor is one of these of good people who personally has made it one of his missions ...
This week, Fashion Made Fair hosted an event at The Boilerhouse in East London. The event show...
Where do you buy your cotton underwear? Have you checked the label lately? A group of la...
Have you got a brilliant business idea that would make the world a better place? 55,000 people ...
How many times have you opened a bottle of wine lately to find a synthetic stopper instead of tra...